10 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraqi Violence (4 April, 2004)

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[Joe Hadenuf]

I know, and some of the questions I have asked here, go unanswered.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Got mail.....

[tessalu]

The USA is not doing enough to crack down on terrorism in Iraq. Old fools are sending our young men to die, and still give the terrorists free reign, and this is just not going to work. These young men are dying for some fools political correctness. We need to really mean business or get out. We can do if if we have the will, but it will not be pretty.

[Rokke]

Well, if it's any help at all, just rest absolutely assured that the people making the military decisions in Iraq and Afghanistan are military. And we've got a good team there. A damn good team. You've got some of the best minds in the United States Marine Corps making the tactical decisions on how to respond in Fallujah. That's like holding four aces on a table full of rich, drunk fools. Ease back and watch the pot grow. It's all yours anyway.

[lawdog]

What they know is....

ISLAM is a DEATH CULT!

These bastards, including the clerics that vomit their "jihad" threats need to be vaporized. Bush better get with it...the dems are salivating with their eyes on November. Personally, I think the Brass has gone wobbly.

[Salem]

Right back at you. I don't care who or where you fought, it doesn't give you the right to insult anybody at Free Republic.

[Dave Elias]

Errr, they're Sunnis not Shi'ites. The fact that you don't know the difference sort of highlights the fundemental issue.

[samtheman]

We need to really mean business or get out. We can do if if we have the will, but it will not be pretty.

You are right.

[samtheman]

Harry Truman their A$$ES!!!!!

I nominate this as the Most Creative Verbification of a Noun for the year 2004.

[TomasUSMC]

This will show you why we are so screwed up in Iraq now.

Marine Corps commanders said they planned no change in their long-term tactics in Fallujah as a result of the deaths yesterday. Major General James Mattis, commanding the First Marine Division, has told troops that the test of their mettle will be not to lash back at the Iraqis because of casualties.

To the division's classic motto, "No better friend, no worse enemy," Mattis has affixed a preface for the mission in the Anbar Province, which includes Fallujah: "First, do no harm."

FIRST DO NO HARM. Now in the nastiest crap hole on earth with RPGs and mines and bullets flying like hail our brave Marines are being ordered by their commanding officer:

FIRST DO NO HARM.

that is treason. That is insane. Major General James Mattis should be thrown in the brig at once.

[Lion in Winter]

You called me a name, didn't you? So, I guess YOU can call folks "keyboard commandos" and insult them... BUT folks here cannot express their opinion that some here are ACTING like panic stricken "girls".

Bush is President and I think he knows what he is doing and will do the best job he can to get us out of Iraq.

I have a whole bunch of relatives in the various branches of the service... medics, pilots, sailors and even an Army Doctor in Iraq right now.

I refuse to panic about the recent violence against the troops.

[MEG33]

Shiites loyal to a young murdering cleric are today's rioters and killers.The ones who did the body burning outrage were Sunni.

[lawdog]

FIRST DO NO HARM.
SH##, it is worse than I thought. This dip-sh#$ thinks he's running a boys school for doctors. Chesty Puller is rollin' in his grave !

[B4Ranch]

>>Against my better judgment, I got carried away with the optimism of the Bush Administration regarding the desire of the Iraqi people to move toward some sort of democracy or any kind of enlightenment. I fell for this because I wanted to believe it, though reasoned thought told me otherwise. <<

“The masses live by, and are ruled by, subconscious and emotional thought process. The crowd has never thirsted for the truth. It turns aside from evidence that is not to its taste, preferring to glorify and to follow error, if the way of error appears attractive enough, and seduces them. Whoever can supply the crowd with attractive emotional illusions may easily become their master; and whoever attempts to destroy such firmly entrenched illusions of the crowd is almost sure to be rejected.”

[justshutupandtakeit]

I don't count 10 American soldiers killed in this story.

[Blue Scourge]

Damn...this thread is turning ugly real quick.....

[derlauerer]

Harry Truman their A$$ES!!!!!

I nominate this as the Most Creative Verbification of a Noun for the year 2004.

I disagree. I think "Verbification" is the most creative verbification of a noun for the year 2004.

[samtheman]

The Coalition did not finish the Iraq war before trying to move to a political settlement. Now, the Coalition forces are facing growing opposition from more than just the old Saddam supporters.

The Coalition may still have 'to finish that war' before a new government will succeed.

And I believe it's not too late. This is winnable. We've just got to kill more badguys. More than we have been.

Stories are coming back through the press. You catch wind of them. Of soldiers feeling held-back, constrained. Just like in Vietnam.

[justshutupandtakeit]

YEAH we should have done X the DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY we should IGNORE the fact we have been there only a year and pretend it has been fifty. Lord what a load of crap you armchair tacticians are trying to sell. And you can't tell the difference between a skirmish and a battle.

My God what happened to the American people who knew that war brought pain and suffering and required patience to achieve victory? Have they ALL been replaced by shallow nitwits crying from the back seat "Are we there, Yet?" "Are we there yet?" "I gotta go to the bathroom."

Fortunately the adults in charge understand their business.

[Happy2BMe]

"Damn...this thread is turning ugly real quick....."

UGLY is seeing American citizens strung up like skinned chickens with their heads cut off with over 300 Iraqis dancing in their blood.

UGLIER is if Bush lets our boys continue to be Allah fodder without giving them authorization to retaliate against a ruthless enemy.

THAT will get downright WICKED.